One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

That whole thing about masturbating. Most girls, I guess nobody has to tell them, they just figure it out. I had to be told. Some girl actually had to show me a hairbrush and demonstrate exactly what to do. I just never figured that stuff out naturally.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.